Karl Johnson (actor)







Karl Johnson (born 1 March 1948) is a Welsh actor, who has worked on stage, film and television. His notable roles to date include the title role in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein,[1] and those of Cato the Younger in the television drama series Rome and of Twister Turrill in the BBC costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford.[2]


Johnson is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University.




Karl Johnson describing his favourite pub The Pineapple, Kentish Town, for the London Beyond Sight project




Contents






  • 1 Films


  • 2 Television


  • 3 Selected stage career


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Films




  • Jubilee 1978


  • The Tempest 1979


  • Prick Up Your Ears 1987


  • Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon 1998


  • Stickfighter (1994)


  • Wittgenstein 1993


  • Oh Shucks! Here Comes UNTAG 1990


  • Close My Eyes 1991


  • Pure 2002


  • Tomorrow La Scala 2002


  • Heidi 2005


  • The Illusionist 2006


  • Four Last Songs, Erico 2007


  • Hot Fuzz, PC Bob Walker 2007


  • The Pier 2011[3]


  • The Sea 2013


  • Mr Turner 2014


  • The Death of Stalin 2017


  • Peterloo 2018[4]



Television




  • Rainbow (1973 - 1974) [as part of the music trio]

  • New Tricks

  • The Chatterley Affair

  • Nostradamus

  • Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

  • Why We Went to War

  • Midsomer Murders


  • Rome 2005-7


  • Lark Rise to Candleford 2009-11

  • Ray's Daze

  • Born and Bred

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

  • Without Motive

  • David Copperfield

  • Vanity Fair

  • The Temptation of Franz Schubert

  • Wing and a Prayer

  • An Independent Man

  • As You Like It

  • Catherine the Great

  • When I'm 64

  • The Bill

  • Sons and Lovers

  • Call the Midwife

  • Mum

  • Lark Rise to Candleford

  • New Tricks

  • The Chatterley Affair

  • Nostradamus

  • Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

  • Why We Went to War

  • Midsomer Murders

  • Ray's Daze

  • Born and Bred

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge

  • Without Motive

  • David Copperfield

  • Vanity Fair

  • The Temptation of Franz Schubert

  • Wing and a Prayer

  • An Independent Man

  • As You Like It

  • Catherine the Great

  • When I'm 64

  • The Bill

  • Sons and Lovers

  • Call the Midwife

  • Mum

  • Small Island


  • Lovesick 2016

  • King Lear



Selected stage career




  • The Seafarer, as James 'Sharky' Harkin, National Theatre, London


  • Tales From The Vienna Woods, National Theatre, London


  • Scenes from the Big Picture, National Theatre, London


  • Hamlet, National Theatre, London[5]


  • The Walls, National Theatre, London


  • Cardiff East, National Theatre, London


  • The Ends of the Earth, National Theatre, London


  • Machine Wreckers, National Theatre, London


  • The Shape of The Table, National Theatre, London


  • Black Snow, National Theatre, London


  • Golden Boy, National Theatre, London


  • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, National Theatre, London


  • The Sea, National Theatre, London


  • Uncle Vanya, National Theatre, London


  • Don Quixote, National Theatre, London


  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, London


  • The Fawn, National Theatre, London


  • Glengarry Glen Ross, National Theatre, London


  • Wild Honey, National Theatre, London


  • The Rivals, National Theatre, London


  • The Mysteries, National Theatre, London


  • Animal Farm, National Theatre, London


  • Almost Nothing/At The Table, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • This Is A Chair, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • The Night Heron, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Boy Gets Girl, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • The Weir, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Been So Long, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Just a Little Less Than Normal, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Sudlow's Dawn, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • Irish Eyes and English Tears, Royal Court Theatre, London


  • In The Company of Men, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford


  • TV Times, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford


  • Knight of the Burning Pestle, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford


  • Amadeus, Peter Hall Company


  • The Country Wife, Centreline Productions


  • The Last Yankee, Leicester Haymarket


  • Woyzeck, Foco Novo at Lyric Hammersmith


  • War Crimes, ICA


  • The Dresser, Leatherhead


  • Hedda Gabler, Yvonne Arnaud Guildford


  • Much Ado About Nothing, Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park


  • As You Like It, Old Vic


  • Vieux Carre, West End


  • Frankenstein, National Theatre, London


  • Barking in Essex, Wyndham's Theatre



References




  1. ^ Open Culture: Wittgenstein. Accessed 7 May 2014


  2. ^ BBC One - Lark Rise to Candleford. Accessed 7 May 2014


  3. ^ "Irish Film Board - Film Directory - Features - The Pier". Directory.irishfilmboard.ie. Retrieved 2013-02-25..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ "History with a human face". The Sunday Telegraph. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019.


  5. ^ Patrick O'Kane (2 May 2012). Actors' Voices: The People Behind the Performances: The People Behind the Performances. Oberon Books. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-84943-336-5.



External links



  • Karl Johnson on IMDb







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